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Transition-Edge Sensors Transition-Edge Sensors K. D. Irwin and G. C. Hilton National Institute of Standards and Technology Mail Stop 817.03 325 Broadway Boulder, CO 80305 Preprint of chapter in Cryogenic Particle Detection C. Enss (Ed.) Topics Appl. Phys. 99, 63-149 (2005) Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005 ISBN: 3-540-20113-0 Transition-Edge Sensors∗ K. D. Irwin and G. C. Hilton National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO 80305-3328 USA April 29, 2005 Abstract In recent years, superconducting transition-edge sensors (TES) have emerged as powerful, energy- resolving detectors of single photons from the near infrared through gamma rays and sensitive detectors of photon fluxes out to millimeter wavelengths. The TES is a thermal sensor that measures an energy deposition by the increase of resistance of a superconducting film biased within the superconducting-to- normal transition. Small arrays of TES sensors have been demonstrated, and kilopixel arrays are under development. In this chapter, we describe the theory of the superconducting phase transition, derive the TES calorimeter response and noise theory, discuss the state of understanding of excess noise, and describe practical implementation issues including materials choice, pixel design, array fabrication, and cryogenic SQUID multiplexing. Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Superconducting transition-edge sensor theory 3 2.1 The superconducting transition . 3 2.2 TES Small Signal Theory Summary . 6 2.3 TES electrical and thermal response . 7 2.4 TES Stability . 16 2.5 Negative electrothermal feedback . 17 2.6 Thermodynamic noise . 19 2.7 Excess noise . 26 2.8 Large Signals . 30 3 Single-pixel implementation 31 3.1 TES Thermometers . 32 3.1.1 Elemental superconductors . 32 3.1.2 Bilayers and Multilayers . 33 3.1.3 Magnetically doped superconductors . 33 3.2 Thermal isolation . 34 3.2.1 Micromachined thermal supports . 34 3.2.2 Phonon Decoupling . 35 3.3 Absorbers . 37 3.4 Useful formulas . 38 3.4.1 Electrical conductivity of normal-metal thin films . 38 3.4.2 Heat capacity . 38 3.5 Thermal conductance . 40 ∗Preprint of Chapter in Cryogenic Particle Detection, C. Enss (Ed.), Topics Appl. Phys. 99, 63-149 (2005), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005, ISBN: 3-540-20113-0. 3.6 Example Devices and Results . 41 3.6.1 Optical-photon calorimeters . 41 3.6.2 X-ray calorimeters . 41 4 Arrays 42 4.1 Array fabrication and micromachining . 43 4.1.1 Bulk Micromachining . 43 4.1.2 Surface micromachining . 45 4.2 Multiplexed Readout . 48 4.2.1 The Nyquist theorem and multiplexing . 49 4.2.2 SQUID noise and multiplexing . 49 4.2.3 Low-frequency TDM . 50 4.2.4 Low-frequency FDM . 53 4.2.5 Microwave SQUID multiplexer . 54 5 Future Outlook 58 1 Introduction In 1911, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes cooled a sample of mercury in liquid helium, and made the dramatic discovery that its electrical resistance drops abruptly to zero as it cools through its superconducting transition temperature, Tc = 4:2 K [1]. A large number of materials have since been found to have phase transitions into a zero-resistance state at various transition temperatures. The superconducting phase transition can be extremely sharp, suggesting its use as a sensitive thermometer (Fig. 1). In fact, the logarithmic sensitivity (Chapt. 1) of a superconducting transition, α = d log R=d log T , can be two orders of magnitude more sensitive than that of the semiconductor thermistor thermometer that has been used so successfully in cryogenic calorimeters (Chapt. 2). A superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES), also called a superconducting phase-transition ther- mometer (SPT) , consists of a superconducting film operated in the narrow temperature region between the normal and superconducting state, where the electrical resistance varies between zero and its normal value. A TES thermometer can be used in a bolometer (to measure power) or in a calorimeter (to measure a pulse of energy). The sensitivity of a TES makes it possible in principletransitionfig to develop thermal detectors with faster response, larger heat capacity, and smaller detectable energy input than thermal detectors made using conventional semiconductor thermistors. However, the sharp transition leads to a greater tendency for instability and lower saturation energy, so that careful design is required. In 1941, D.H. Andrews applied a current to a fine tantalum wire operating in its superconducting tran- sition region at 3.2 K and measured the change in resistance caused by an infrared signal [2]. This was the first demonstration of a TES bolometer. In 1949, the same researcher applied a current to a niobium nitride strip within its superconducting transition at 15 K and measured the voltage pulses when it was bombarded by alpha particles [3] - the first reported demonstration of a TES calorimeter. This work followed on earlier suggestions by Andrews himself in 1938 [4] and Goetz in 1939 [5]. During the first half century after their invention, TES detectors were seldom used in practical appli- cations. One of the principal barriers to their adoption was the difficulty of matching their noise to FET amplifiers (the TES normal resistance is typically a few ohms or less). In order to noise match, the TES was sometimes read out using a cross-correlation circuit to cancel noise [6], ac biased in conjunction with a step-up transformer [7], or fabricated in long meander lines with high normal resistance [8, 9]. In recent years, this problem has been largely eliminated by the use of superconducting quantum interference de- vice (SQUID) current amplifiers [10], which are easily impedance-matched to low-resistance TES detectors [11, 12]. In addition to their many other advantages, SQUID amplifiers make it possible to multiplex the readout of TES detectors (Sect. 4.2), so that large arrays of detectors can be instrumented with a manageable number of wires to room temperature. Large arrays of TES detectors are now being deployed for a number of different applications. Another barrier to the practical use of TES detectors has been that it is difficult to operate them within the extremely narrow superconducting transition region. When they are current-biased, Joule heating of the 2 ¥¦¡ 0 / £¤¡ ,.- % + ( )* ¢¡ ' & $ %& ¡ §©¨ § ¥ § ¥© ¦¦¦! #" Figure 1: The transition of a superconducting film (a Mo/Cu proximity bilayer) from the normal to the superconducting state near 96 mK. The sharp phase transition suggests its use as a sensitive thermometer. TES by the current can lead to thermal runaway, and small fluctuations in bath temperature significantly degrade performance. Furthermore, variations in the transition temperature between multiple devices in an array of TES detectors can make it impossible to bias them all at the same bath temperature. As will be explained in Sect. 2.5, when the TES is instead voltage-biased and read out with a current amplifier, the devices can easily be stably biased and they self-regulate in temperature within the transition with much less sensitivity to fluctuations in the bath temperature [13]. The introduction of voltage-biased operation with SQUID current readout has led to an explosive growth in the development of TES detectors in the past decade. The potential of TES detectors is now being realized. TES detectors are being developed for measure- ments across the electromagnetic spectrum from millimeter [14, 15, 16] through gamma rays [17, 18] as well as with weakly interacting particles [19] and biomolecules [20, 21, 22]. They have contributed to the study of dark matter and supersymmetry [23, 24], the chemical composition of materials [25], and the new field of quantum information [26]. They have extended the usefulness of the single-photon calorimeter all the way to the near infrared [27], with possible extension to the far infrared. They are being used in the first multiplexed submillimeter, millimeter-wave, and x-ray detectors for spectroscopy and astronomical imaging [28, 29, 15, 16, 30]. 2 Superconducting transition-edge sensor theory We now describe the theory of a superconducting transition-edge sensor. We describe the physics of the superconducting transition (2.1), summarize the equations for TES small-signal theory (2.2), and analyze the bias circuit for a TES and its electrical and thermal response (2.3), the conditions for the stability of a TES (2.4), the consequences of negative electrothermal feedback (2.5), thermodynamic noise (2.6), unexplained noise (2.7), and the effects of operation outside of the small-signal limit (2.8). Particular implementations of both TES single pixels and arrays, including performance results, will be described in Sects. 3 and 4. 2.1 The superconducting transition In this work, we discuss sensors based on traditional \low-Tc" superconductors (often those with transition temperatures below 1 K). Other classes of superconductors, including the cuprates such as yttrium-barium- copper-oxide, are also used in thermal detectors. Transition-edge sensors based on these \high-Tc" materials have much lower sensitivity and much higher saturation levels than those that are discussed here. 3 In low-Tc materials, the phenomenon of superconductivity has been fairly well understood since the 1950s, when detailed microscopic and macroscopic theories were developed. Superconductivity in low-Tc materials occurs when two electrons are bound together in \Cooper" pairs, acting as one particle. The energy binding Cooper pairs prevents them from scattering, allowing them to flow without resistance. Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer first explained the formation of Cooper pairs in 1957 in the landmark microscopic BCS theory [31]. The energy binding the two electrons in a Cooper pair is due to interactions with positive ions in the lattice mediated by phonons (quantized lattice vibrations). When a negatively charged electron flows in a superconductor, positive ions in the lattice are drawn towards it, creating a cloud of positive charge. A second electron is attracted to this cloud.
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